Harry O (TV Series)

Silent Kill (1975)

David Janssen: Harry Orwell

Quotes 

• Ted Gillman : You see, I have a policy here, Mr. Orwell. I hire the handicapped. And it's always surprising how many people resent anyone with a flaw, a defect. It's kind of frightening. Anyway, Gordon resented Ken Corby, and frankly, I resent you blaming me for it.

  Harry Orwell : I'd like to apologize for that.

  Ted Gillman : Noted but not accepted. Good-bye, Mr. Orwell.

  Harry Orwell : [voiceover]  I probably had that coming. Anybody who hires the handicapped can't be all that bad. But what I've got to remember is I'm not exactly a scratch player myself.

• Harry Orwell : You mind if I'm impolite?

  Laura Mayo : Are you gonna make a pass?

  Harry Orwell : Well, first I want to be impolite.

• Lt. K.C. Trench : [after Harry runs out of a burning building]  How do you feel? How do you feel?

  Harry Orwell : Medium rare?

• Harry Orwell : The wheels of justice grind...

  Lt. K.C. Trench : I'm not a judge, Orwell. I'm a cop.

• Ben Loretz : Harry, I don't do freebies anymore.

  Harry Orwell : You said the idea of handling a deaf-mute fascinated you.

  Ben Loretz : Now that was off-the-cuff fascination. I've got a federal tax appeal in precisely forty-two minutes. Money, Harry, money.

  Harry Orwell : What happened to that heroic friend of the friendless, Ben?

  Ben Loretz : That's when I was a fighting liberal. Translation: young and hungry. I'm fat now, Harry. My kids enjoy first-class orthodontia. I got my mother her own condominium in Florida. And I live in a tax shelter. I'm gonna plead him, and that's it.

• Lt. K.C. Trench : You took quite a chance.

  Harry Orwell : On the possibility that you were an honest cop?

  Lt. K.C. Trench : I don't mind being thought of as honest, Orwell. I resent being predictable.

• Harry Orwell : [voiceover]  There was no way to get in touch with the Corbys by telephone. They don't have one. Why should they? What I wondered about now was how to get into the house. There wouldn't be a doorbell. They couldn't hear a knock. I began to realize just how vulnerable and alone they really were.